THE REPRESSION OF SEXUALITY AND SCAPEGOAT THEORY: THE EXPERIENCE OF ‘OTHERNESS’

This paper examines the impact of the repressed sexuality on persecution of outsiders. Taking into consideration Michel Foucault's framework, his insights were connected with psychoanalytic theory. The frus- trated libido, it is argued here, results in the manifestations of aggressiveness directed towards particular groups of people – ‘scapegoats'. Discrimination and persecution effected by the repressed sexuality of Victorian morali- ty is examined in a light of investigating the examples of chosen ‘scapegoats' throughout the human history – the witches, the homosexuals and the Jews